Book Title: The Music of Dolphins Author: Karen Hesse
Type of Book: Fiction
Chapters: Sixty-two (roughly)
Pages: 181
My Rating: 5 Stars (out of five)
Plot: Off the coast of Florida, Mila is rescued after being raised by Dolphins ever since she was four.
Now a teenager, she makes the headlines of Newspaper everywhere. Doctors and Researchers teach Mila all kinds of things about the human world, such as, language and music. She also learns about broken promises, expectations, locked doors and disappointments. When Mila knows what it means to be human, she longs for her ocean home and her Dolphin family. Will she go back to the sea or will she stay?
My thoughts: This book is from the point of view of Mila, a girl who was raised by dolphins since the age of four. The reason why I said "Sixty-two chapters (roughly)" is, the first few pages and a couple other sections of the book aren't really marked as chapters. They are kinda like "Dolphin Chapters", and in them Mila tells what it feels like to be in the ocean with her Dolphin family. The first pages of the book is about Mila with her Dolphin cousins and then coast guards find her. Then there is a newspaper headline about her rescue. After that the marked chapters starts. When Mila starts her learning, the print is very big and there is only about 50 words on a page, but as she is progressing the print starts getting smaller till it's a normal size. And then at the end the print gets big again. (I'm not going to tell you why ;) Mila is very sweet and is always wanting to make the Doctors and her friends, Justin and Shay, happy. Justin is the son of Doctor Beck, the main doctor who teaches Mila. At first it seems that Justin doesn't like Mila, but once he warms up to her, Mila tells him that he would be a good dolphin. And if he was a dolphin he would be her mate. Towards the end of the book Mila is missing her ocean home more the ever. She feels more like no ones wants to know Mila, but to stare at the "Dolphin-Girl."
Read the book and find out what happens at the end.
Would I recommend this book: Yes!
Happy Reading!
-Emily :)
